Non-laboratory, at the point – of – care, field measurements require more than personnel and instruments. Most commercially available NMR instruments are not durable enough to survive deployment to real, harsh factory conditions involving severe electronic noise, mechanical vibration, and an uncontrolled environment. Also, these real non-laboratory conditions, unfamiliar to most spectroscopists, make most data acquisition and processing protocols unstable. Examples of stable data processing methods, portable lightweight, inexpensive instruments and their use in factories, the outdoors and hotel rooms will be provided and used to highlight the steps needed to convert real field measurements into meaningful information.